NABLUS, Saturday, September 26, 2020 (WAFA) – Two Palestinians were today injured by Israeli occupation forces during clashes that erupted in the village of Qusra, to the south of northern West Bank city of Nablus, following an attack by Jewish settlers on two Palestinian-owned poultry farms in the village, according to a local source.

Ghassan Daghlas, who monitors Israeli settlement activities in the north of the West Bank, told WAFA that a group of settlers attacked the poultry farms, located on the outskirts of Qusra, ransacked them and destroyed their content.

The settlers also set fire to a tractor that was parked in one of the farms and damaged water tanks.

Daghlas said that as residents rushed to protect their property, Israeli soldiers, who were in the area, intervened only to protect the settlers and attacked the Palestinians.

In the clashes that ensued, the Israeli soldiers fired rubber-coated rounds at the village residents injuring two of them.

Israeli settler violence is commonplace across the occupied West Bank and is rarely prosecuted by the occupation authorities, leaving Palestinians vulnerable to their attacks.

M.N./M.K.